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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
The field of solar-terrestrial physics has evolved to a point where quantitative theoretical modeling and cause-effect predictive techniques can be foreseen. Instrumentation now exists to quantitatively test these theories and lead to a significant improvement in our understanding of the solar-terrestrial environment. The proposed Origins of Plasma in the Earth's Neighborhood (OPEN) program will be used to trace this theoretical and experimental evolution and describe a solar-terrestrial research scenario for the 1980's which includes specific problems related to solar and interplanetary dynamics.